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- From: david.maxwell@dal.ca
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- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No voles here
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:22:55 -0300
> >I think that is an interesting theory about voles eating the roots of
> >young trees and should probably be looked into by someone. What I
> >see on black raspberry plants here is not the voles chewing on the
> >canes so much as eating the roots, particularly the large roots near
> >the crown of the plant.
I can't speak for other places, but here in Nova Scotia we have two different
voles: the
meadow vole, which remains largely on the surface, and chews the trunk, and
the orchard
vole, which lives largely in underground tunnels and eats the roots. Most
growers report
having only the meadow vole. I have orchard voles, and have lost several
trees to their
activities. Being subterranian, they are not as easily poisoned with surface
bait stations. But
I too have an abundant population of garter snakes, who obviously are adept
at crawling
down narrow holes. I have also tried dumping bait down the holes and then
covering the hole
over with a piece of wood to stop other animals getting it.
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[NAFEX] No voles here,
Jim Fruth, 04/25/2010
- [NAFEX] White Mulberries Ripe, Richard Harrison, 04/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] No voles here, William C. Garthright, 04/25/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [NAFEX] No voles here,
Ernest Plutko, 04/25/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] No voles here,
Michael Dossett, 04/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] No voles here, loneroc, 04/26/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] No voles here,
Michael Dossett, 04/25/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] No voles here,
Ernest Plutko, 04/25/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] No voles here,
david . maxwell, 04/26/2010
- [NAFEX] vole vs ferret?, Melissa Kacalanos, 04/26/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] No voles here,
david . maxwell, 04/26/2010
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